Haym Salomon: The Financier of the Revolution : an Unwritten Chapter in American HistoryTrow Press, 1911 - 47 páginas |
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Página 34 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Página 44 - British ministry early in 1777, "being the principal persons settled in the province who very zealously served the rebels in the winter of 1775-1776, and fled upon their leaving it." Franks, who left Canada with the intention of joining the American army, although his course in this matter resulted in heavy pecuniary losses in his business affairs and also alienated him from his father, became aidede-camp to Arnold...
Página 43 - ... heedless and so ignorant of what has passed, and is now passing in the political world. I have not been so proud or so prejudiced as to renounce the cause for which I have fought, as an American, throughout the whole of the revolutionary war, in the militia of Charleston, and in Polafkey's legion, I fought in almost every action which took place in Carolina, and in the disastrous affair of Savannah, shared the hardships of that sanguinary day...
Página 47 - Amos and Judah, venerated names, Patriarch and Prophet press their equal claims, Like generous coursers running "neck and neck " Each aids the -work by giving it a check. Christian and Jew, they carry out one plan, For though of different faiths, each is in heart a MAN THE WAK OF 1812.
Página 19 - The kindness of our little friend in Front Street, near the CofFee-House, is a fund which will preserve me from extremities; but I never resort to it without great mortification, as he obstinately rejects all recompense.
Página 43 - ... on an unpublished letter of Jared Sparks : " At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War a Mr. Gomez, of New York, proposed to a member of the Continental Congress that he form a company of soldiers for service. The member of Congress remonstrated with Mr. Gomez on the score of age, he then being sixty-eight, to which Mr. Gomez replied that he 'could stop a bullet as well as a younger man.
Página 13 - ... and was called Congress Hall. So closely were they packed that when they lay down at night to rest, when their bones ached on the hard oak planks and they wished to turn, it was altogether by word of command — " right, left" being so wedged and compact so as to form almost a solid mass of human bodies.
Página 34 - I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and the ruin of our children. I give you this warning, that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
Página 18 - His balance at the various times of settlement in his bank book show specie balances of $15,000 to $50,000 at each period. The amount charged by the bank to his account as paid to the financier of the Revolution was more than $200,000, while Robert Morris' own account during the same period has but a deposit of less than $10,000, and which was received on the very day from Haym Salomon as it was charged to him. Funds were also given, when necessity required, to Jefferson, Willson...
Página 45 - Arnold, and honorably acquitted of all connexion with him after a full and impartial inquiry, will be able to give you our public news more particularly than I could relate them. He sails hence for Cadiz, and on his arrival will proceed to Madrid, where, having delivered my letters to Mr. Jay, he will take his orders for you. He will then wait your orders, and, I hope, will soon after meet a safe opportunity of coming to America. With the most perfect esteem and regard, I have...